nikkietutorials hasn't been getting as many views like Lia she's been hitting a
little bit of the creative block but she's also complaining a little bit so
today we're gonna unpack that mental health tips that might be able to help
you as well
what is everybody this is Chris from the rewired so when we talk about the
problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is
all about mental health and what I like to do is pull different topics from the
YouTube community try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional
well-being so maybe that stuff makes you subscribe
and bring that notification bell so a little bit of a fair warning all right
tough love Chris is gonna come out for this video but it is all from a place of
compassion and I've been where nikkietutorials is kind of I'm not a
makeup artist but anyways speaking of tough love did you see this brand-new
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get 10% off all right so anyways with this nikkietutorials video we're gonna
be talking about a few different topics alright we're gonna be talking about
locus of control which plays into anxiety and depression a little bit
we're gonna be talking about stubbornness we're also going to be
talking about creative blocks alright so anyways this was kind of recommended to
me by one of my amazing subscribers Savi Liu and she also recommended I check out
rich Lutz's video so I'm gonna talk about rich luxe this video in a minute
but yeah so those of you who aren't in the makeup beauty guru atmosphere type
deal what happened was nikkietutorials she is one of the old-school beauty
gurus and she recently did like kind of like vlog this but it's like this winter
type series and she's not getting that many views so she recorded a snapchat
story that looked like this zoomed in on that new iPhone like why are you so
close to my face anyways I feel like my last three videos have been flying under
the radar I feel like nobody's getting
notifications I feel like YouTube is keeping like the videos a way for my
subscribers and honestly it's been the most devastating
thing ever I just want my videos to be seen you know when I do my videos I pour
some of what is on my I you know my channel has you know even when a video
isn't doing all that well it has a standard and I am way below that
standard right now for no reason I feel like all three of them were good video
so I'm like whoa what is going on and it's so you know it kills your
motivation it kills your mood and kills wanting to do more I'm in the middle of
winter winter week and I feel like nobody even knows that I'm doing winter
wonder weed today I wanted to film the Bob Ross following a Bob Ross a painting
tutorial on my face because that got requested when I did the Grinch look but
at this one I'm like well when I do that I want people to see it and it's not
flying under the radar again it's just it's so exciting and it makes me sad so
yeah while it is true while it is true that YouTube doesn't have the best
notifications what we're gonna talk about right now is locus of control
alright so there's an internal locus of control and external locus of control
some of you who have been around for a while you know exactly what I'm talking
about those of you who don't so with external locus of control is the
idea that I don't have control over the outcomes in my life right it all depends
on other people so like Nicky's a great example she's talking about how she's
about getting views because of YouTube okay I'm not saying that she's wrong
everybody and their mom knows that YouTube does not give you all the
notifications that you should I never get notifications and I have a lot of
notification bells turned on but what I'll show you as an example of an
internal locus of control is what lists rich Luck says when talking about this
topic what are some ways you can do to get people to watch your videos if
they're not getting notifications and I was the one that raised my head and I
said well you post your video maybe you feel like
are going out you go to Twitter and you say hey I posted the video and then you
post a video link and then you get on snapchat and you're like hey guys just
post this video swipe up and you go on Instagram and you're like hey guys post
this video swipe up then you go on Facebook you're like I post this video
Benny wants to live over here check it out you know I'm saying and
it's like you gotta hit all the platforms let people know because not
everybody just hang out on YouTube you know they're doing other stuff ok so
study after study has proven that people with an internal locus of control have
less anxiety and less depression because in their mind there are more control of
the outcomes that happen in their life so I can definitely relate to rich looks
like my youtube channel didn't start growing until I quit complaining about
YouTube until I quit complaining about the algorithm it's like quit complaining
about the viewers until I quit complaining about what they wanted and
all these other things so like what rich said like all of you like follow me on
social media by the way did you know the only Christmas present I want from you
is they hit 10,000 followers on Instagram so go follow me at the rewired
soul okay but the other thing is if you want to get notified about my videos
because I'm ill day you don't always get notified way so I post it on my Twitter
I post it on my Instagram I share you know discord servers sometimes it showed
in our Facebook group as well but if you're following me on other avenues of
social media you'll always know when my videos come out
so what rich is saying is like Nikki should be doing all these other things
like as a youtuber as a creator we have to be our own marketing person as well
and we need to push our content out because of the YouTube algorithm isn't
doing it for us we need to take back that control and do it so this then
leads into the kind of stubbornness that we're gonna talk about now this is not
this is not unique to nikkietutorials I've been noticing it a lot lately and I
was actually thinking about talking about a little Lilly Singh but if you
know what's going on with Lilly Singh you can relate it to what's going on
with nikkietutorials so this is something that not only just
make a tutorial struggle with or Lilly Singh or some of the old-school
youtubers this is something I also see in business I see it in different
industries on a regular basis like times are changing times are constantly
changing so what somebody pointed out to nikkietutorials
was that they just weren't into since some of the videos that she was
making like they said like I did get notified but I didn't want to watch and
Nikki actually got a little bit of self-awareness and this is why we need
to keep people around who tell us what we need to hear and not what we want to
hear so Nikki replied with Thank You Jennifer I definitely get what you're
saying it's hard finding a balance to please as many of my followers as
possible I feel like every look has been done and explained but your advice is
definitely something I'll remember so I'm going to talk about that in a minute
again with the creative blocks that a lot of people struggle with but here's
the thing that youtubers need to start understanding but also different
industries understanding is that it's not about what we want to do it's about
what you all want right so I need to make videos about what you all want like
some of you who have been subscribed since I was like way smaller earlier
this year you saw that my channel kind of changed something that I realized is
that you are not going to youtube to be entertained by typing in depression
alright so what I'm doing is I'm pulling in top and say you're already familiar
with to teach you about mental health now I'm not saying that's what
nikkietutorials should do but we need to realize how the algorithm is changing
what the style of YouTube is doing but to put this in more like terms that are
like an analogy that you might understand is think about business
owners who are doing their marketing like it's 2018 like this anybody wants
Direct Mail advertisements like do you just love are you excited to go to your
mailbox and get ads in your mail no of course not do you like telemarketers are
you the one person on the earth who likes telemarketers of course you're not
alright so what businesses need to start doing is realizing that times have
changed and they need to adjust to do that instead of being stubborn so many
people are stuck in that old way of thinking I know a lot of people who are
holding themselves back because they will adapt and change to what what
people want nowadays right like the internet is where everybody is people
aren't Facebook people aren't Instagram people are on Twitter people are on
YouTube you know what I mean so like if I were to go out if I was starting a
business right now and I went to the Yellow Pages and bought an ad in there
like when's like I know some people still use that but like a way better way
of doing that is on social media so what I'm saying is is that creatives out
there need to realize that they're being stubborn
because a lot of them with that external locus of control combined with being
stubborn nothing's gonna change and they're gonna stay in that pit right
because a lot of people what a lot of people do is they romanticize the old
days this is one of the reasons why I love Gary Vaynerchuk right but as he
talks about how like we have to change with the times we have to look at where
the attention is like is the attention in the yellow pages right now or is it
on social media right so with with the beauty gurus right they have to look at
what the new trends are what people are looking at how are they liking this you
know what I'm saying so you've got a look at what's happening on the platform
now and what works and kind of gear it towards that way but any of you out
there if you're creative or if you're a business owner or even if you're an
employee and you want to like toss around new ideas and this goes into the
topic of creativity like look at where attention is at to day in 2018 not 2012
not 2013 all right where's the attention at today I'm eventually gonna make a
video about Shane Dawson because you've seen how Shane has changed his style of
video and he's still capturing attention but lastly I'm gonna talk about his
creative blocks like a lot of people ask me you know how do I make so many videos
where do my ideas come from well one of them is because I always remember like
what my passion is right my passion isn't getting subscribers my passion
isn't making money my passion is helping people with their mental health right
and we got a look about at this like when it comes to like teachers or
doctors and mental health professionals everybody got into this for a certain
reason okay and maybe somebody like nikkietutorials who wanted to be
creative and help people with their makeup and all of that like the the
person who tweeted out or originally said they liked what you did like thrift
store hauls and you know how to do creative things with that and like we
have to listen to what people want so this is more create creative stuff for
like youtubers real quick but like something that I do I'm constantly
reading your comments I'm constantly looking and seeing what you guys are
doing on Twitter and everything like that like where is your attention what
do you like right I look and do research of other channels who are kind of in my
realm what are they doing what's working what's not I analyze my own videos and
say what's working what's not so like I know when the videos got up do well I
know for a fact then I know what I'm doing other videos that aren't gonna do
as well because an algorithm isn't gonna push him out so like I also try to find
different top and so I'm gonna like doing and enjoy doing right
like yesterday I made a video just about borderline personality disorder didn't
know if the algorithm was gonna pick that up but that idea was in my head I
knew a lot of people would enjoy it even if you did a push it out to new
subscribers and one thing that I know a lot of youtubers struggle with is
they're constantly trying to grow rather than focusing on the audience that they
already have like what got that audience there in the first place you know what I
mean but for all of you out there if you are any type of creative like research
research research research talk to other creators talk to you know the fans of
the work right like I love what you all like follow me on Instagram and your
artist or like if you want to like down in the comments if you're an artist on
Instagram put your Instagram in there like I love following all of you artists
like twisting it's an amazing artist like I just love art right so like look
and see what your audience likes see what styles they like and all of that so
if you're a creative type person like you've got to start thinking out of the
box and you've got to start finding things that inspire you okay like you
don't have to do what everybody else is doing by find your own way but that'll
help you get out of that creative block alright but I would love to hear from
all of you what helps you get out of creative block let me know down in the
comments below okay anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this
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videos with my psychologist mama while she's in town alright thanks again for
watching I'll see you next time